Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.twitter.getListMembers

on getListMembers (listname, adrtable, username=nil, password=nil, whoseList=nil) {
	<<Changes
		<<10/31/09; 7:48:19 PM by DW
			<<Reorganized parameter list so username and password can be optional params.
		<<10/31/09; 7:12:31 PM by DW
			<<Add a parameter, "whoseList" to determine whose list we get. The username and password must be present to authenticate, but I can get other people's lists if I want to.
		<<10/31/09; 6:58:09 AM by DW
			<<Created. Gets the contents of a Twitter list into a Frontier table.
	local (apiurl, cursor = 0);
	if username == nil {
		username = user.twitter.prefs.username};
	if password == nil {
		password = user.twitter.prefs.password};
	if whoseList == nil {
		whoseList = username};
	apiurl = "http://twitter.com/" + whoseList + "/" + listname + "/members.xml";
	new (tabletype, adrtable);
	loop {
		local (url = apiurl);
		if cursor != 0 {
			url = url + "?cursor=" + cursor};
		local (xmltext = tcp.httpreadurl (url, 5, false, username, password), xstruct);
		xml.compile (xmltext, @xstruct);
		scratchpad.xstruct = xstruct;
		local (adruserslist = xml.getaddress (@xstruct, "users_list"));
		local (adrusers = xml.getaddress (adruserslist, "users"));
		for adruser in adrusers {
			if nameof (adruser^) endswith "user" {
				local (adrsub = @adrtable^.[xml.getvalue (adruser, "screen_name")], status);
				new (tabletype, @status); //*cough* hack *cough*
				status.[nameof (adruser^)] = adruser^;
				twitter.extractUserInfo (@status, adrsub)}};
		cursor = xml.getvalue (adruserslist, "next_cursor");
		if cursor == 0 { //no more
			break}}};
bundle { //test code
	getListMembers ("tech-bloggers-reporters", @scratchpad.listmembers, whoseList:"atul")}

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